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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Chapter One Submissions: November

***THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO SUBMITTED
THEIR FIRST CHAPTER IN NOVEMBER. SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED, BUT CHECK BACK THE
FIRST WEEK OF DECEMBER FOR THE NEXT CONTEST***

What is it?

A contest for authors.

Each month I will be looking for the
BEST first chapter of a novel. The winner will receive a $20
Amazon Gift Card AND will be interviewed on both my reader and writer blogs
which have had over 30,000 page views in the past year. In addition, I will
tweet about your book to my 20,000 followers and do a write up about why I chose
your novel as my "chapter one" pick of the month. Read about the Chapter One
winner for October HERE.

For this month, I will be accepting
50 entries. I might change this later...I need time to write
after all ;) but I will do what I can to maintain this number. Once I receive
50, I will announce at the top of this post that submissions are closed for the
month, so if you don't see that above, there's still an opening. Last month it
was only open for two days, so don't wait around ;)

TO ENTER...

Comment on this blog post below. If you are one
of the first fifty to comment, send the first chapter of your novel to my EMAIL ADDRESS.

In the subject line of your email put:
CHAPTER ONE
And then please paste your chapter in the body of the email, and
NOT as an attachment.

The winner will be emailed by the last week
of the month, and look for their interview (and hopefully YOUR interview) the
first week of the following month. If you were not chosen, you may submit the
first chapter of a different novel the next month. Short stories are also
eligible. BUT! Your book must be published to qualify.

Why am I doing this? Because once upon a time
someone held my hand and showed me the way, and now I want to pay it
forward. One of my favorite things to do is promote up-and-coming authors.